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FINAL Showing of "The Crux"
CCS and the Fayetteville Police Department are partnering for the final showing of "The Crux: Educating Kids About Gun Violence 2." The locally produced film explores teens making life choices and the consequences that can follow. The film shows on Thursday, March 21 at Terry Sanford High School from 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. There will be an audience discussion afterward. This event is intended for students in the 6th-12th grades and their parents. For more information, visit the CCS Website.
Building A Love for Literacy
CCS is encouraging families across the district to join them for a session focused on storytelling, reading spaces, and resources that can be utilized when engaging with early learners. The Throwback Thursday Cumberland Family Academy session will be with Dr. Kimberly Johnson, a children’s author and educator with 22 published books. Families will discover how to make literacy an enjoyable experience! This session will stream on the district’s Facebook page at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 21. For more information about CFA, including upcoming family engagement sessions and events, visit www.ccs.k12.nc.us/familyacademy.
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Upcoming Parent Advisory Council Meeting
The Exceptional Children's March Parent Advisory Council meeting will be held on Monday, March 25 from 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. in the Central Services building, located at 2465 Gillespie Street, Fayetteville, NC 28306. The topic of this month's meeting is Child Find. Families will learn more about the provision of services for parentally-placed private school children with disabilities. This meeting is also available via Webex. Webex Meeting Link: https://bit.ly/4a2qRTz
Want to be an ICON?
The ICON (Innovative Career Opportunities Now) Summer Internship Program allows Cumberland County high school students who are at least 15 years old to apply for and interview to work in paid positions for six weeks this summer. This work-based learning program shares an educational approach utilizing the workplace to provide students with the competencies and skills that allow them to connect school experiences to real-life work activities through career exploration, exposure to the real workplace, and achievement of work readiness skills. ICON is accepting applications now until Friday, April 19. For additional information and to apply, visit CCS' Website.
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Cumberland Academy (K-5) is in its inaugural year of the virtual school's Agriculture Club and on February 23, members of the Club met at the Kiwanis Recreation Center to begin their seed starters.
Each student was able to choose a vegetable, an herb and a pollinator to begin growing. Students had the opportunity to start those seeds.
During the next few months, they will take care of their plants, transfer them to a larger grow bag and learn about recipes they can prepare that incorporate their chosen plants.
The Agriculture Club gives students the opportunity to see how academic content intertwines with real-world hands-on skills.
Students at Cross Creek Early College High School recently participated in the NASA TechRise Student Challenge. They were one of 60 teams chosen as Challenge winners, which means they will receive $1,500 to build their experiments. This nationwide contest was designed to engage students in technology, science and space exploration.
 
Congratulations to CCS' 2023-2024 Middle School Battle of the Books Competition winners! Seventy-First Classical Middle School took third-place honors while the team from Gray's Creek Middle School secured second place. The district's first-place winning team was from John Griffin Middle School, who will go on to represent CCS in the regional competition on April 9.
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